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New Post: Crashes when fetch for any series

apollyon02 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:29:42 GMT

Any fix found for this yet? I'm having the same issue except it crashes when fetching movies - fetching for tv series works fine.

New Post: Crashes when fetch for any series

sipp11 — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:12:46 GMT

It crashes on mine too.

I'm on Win7 x64.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

freqi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:09:35 GMT

Yeah it would make sense if mediascout would try fetching a new copy of the metadata if the episode is unknown and it's running from a cache copy. Maybe I can look into that once I finish up with some new features I am trying to get added for a new release.

New Post: Crashes when fetch for any series

RLM — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:17:16 GMT

Hi,

I'm working with mediascout 0.9 beta 2, and it's works great for movies, but when i try to fetch for TV shows, the program crashes, and don't update any metadata.

it used to work fine on 2 computers, with Vista and 7, but now it doesn't work on any of them.

any idea what can be the problem?

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

berbuck — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 14:49:28 GMT

Thanks for the reply. I knew mediascout was still collecting the data, and still "working", it just takes much longer without a working cache folder is all.

But there's also that kind of annoying thing of having to basically delete and reinstall mediascout every couple of weeks because of 'invalid episode' errors.

Again, thanks. Not a huge deal i know, and all the meta scrapers i've tried so far all have their little kinks, i've not found the perfect one yet. But Mediascout still does a great job.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

freqi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:27:04 GMT

By the way, I never really liked how that message was shown as an error. It does not mean something is broken, it just means there is no cache to pull from. MediaScout will still work, it just has to fetch the metadata instead of using the cache (which it does automatically). Personally I never tried fixing it because I didn't want to use the cache anyway, and since there is really no option in MediaScout to disable the use of cache, the fact that it could not use it anyway was always a sort of mixed blessing/curse for me.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

freqi — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:21:26 GMT

I get that all the time too. It really just means that MediaScout cannot find the locally copies version of the metadata, so it has to fetch it every time you do a scan. If I remember right, the "fix" is to cerate the cache folder (in your case, 'F:\Portable Apps\MediaScout0.9Beta2a\Cache') and MediaScout should create the rest.

Note: thetvdb.com appears to be down right now so I cannot really test it out for you. You'll have to try another time when the web site is back up.

I am not real sure why it doesn't make the "cache" folder for you, but that was one of aeoth's pet projects and I never really looked into that part of the code.

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

berbuck — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:43:07 GMT

Anybody help!?!

New Post: Invalid Episode Errors

berbuck — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:01:22 GMT

the fix freqi describes used to work for me. But now i get this error for every show i scan.

Error caching metadata: Could not find a part of the path 'F:\Portable Apps\MediaScout0.9Beta2a\Cache\TVCache\73244.xml'.

That error will pop up for every show.

any thoughts?

New Post: Frequent Crashing... any ideas

violetdav — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:32:21 GMT

I seem to be the only one with this issue, so before I uninstall MediaScout I wanted to check with smarter people than I about a solution.

I have a relativley simple setup using Windows 7RC (and about 4TB of assorted storage) However, ever since I first downloaded MediaScout it, it crashes the minute I start to use it. Example: I have all Feature movies in thier own folders and within each folder is Backdrops, assorted files and original posters. I start MS and it brings up the movies in that folder (around 340), when I hit the Choose Poster or Background button the program subsequently crashes before bringing up anything else.

I am using version .9 Beta 2, so I wanted to know about things like Win7 Compatibility (even though I have tried changing the compatibility all the way back to Vista, XP, and Win2000 all with the same outcome)

Any help would be appreciated.

New Post: Feature Request

freqi — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:52:50 GMT

Being able to individually assign backdrops and banners for each season is coming up on my to-do list. I'll be posting a new binary release once I have some more of that in place.

I like the idea of spinners while images are loading so I'll see what I can do. If you have any suggestions of libraries I can model after, please link me to them.

I'm also using W7 Libraries so I'll put that item on the list of things to look into. Right now I just want to get MediaBrowser set up so you can really mange the individual collections of a series/season/etc. I keep all my stuff in one place on the network so I'm affraid it's a little low on the tree at the moment.

What would you be interested in seeing on a jumplist? Give me some examples. For those unfamilar with what a jumplist is, http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=16143

And because I didn't know that the officially named Taskbar is commonly referred to as the Superbar ... http://www.neowin.net/news/main/09/01/15/windows-7-superbar-overview

New Post: Feature Request

deadonthefloor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:25:57 GMT

while we're at it, let's support jumplists somehow for MediaScout, as I use it so frequently that it is pinned to my 'superbar'.

feedback? comments?

New Post: Feature Request

deadonthefloor — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:20:36 GMT

I would like to see some support for Windows 7 Libraries. I have libraries created for my TV and Movies, as they are stored on different physical drives (7.5TB and counting). As such I think being able to set my "TV" and "Movies" locations to a Windows 7 Library within the "options" tab, thus allowing me to view all of my TV and movies when browsing said tabs.

New Post: Installer?

freqi — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:42:14 GMT

No need for an installer, just extract it to wherever you want to run it from.

New Post: MKV Support?

zombiefly — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:57:31 GMT

ok i've found out what the problem is.

The movies will only show if you have them in folders. i.e. If you have a movie called "the muppets.avi", create a folder called "the muppets" and drop the movie inside.

New Post: MKV Support?

zombiefly — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:53:17 GMT

same problem here. tv shows fine, nothing shown in movies list.... mainly mkv's on a server share \\server\HD movies

New Post: MKV Support?

jays10 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:02:12 GMT

I just recently installed media browser which is working fine. I then downloaded and unzipped media scout and proceeded to run the exe. In the options tab I pointed the movie folder to G:\Movies (External HDD) Which contains all my .mkv files. Now when i click over to the movie tab, nothing is populated and it is completely empty. If i point to my G:\ alone (which holds a few Video_TS files) I can see those as well as the movie folder. mkv is a format listed at the bottom So i'm not too sure if this is some type of error?

New Post: Mini-Series?

tripix — Sat, 09 May 2009 02:20:02 GMT

Hi,

What about Mini-Series? I have the new Battlestar Galactica, both the series and the mini-series? How would this be handled. Series is fine, but mini-series?

New Post: Series Name Alias

Linoge — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:34:04 GMT

Hi Guys

Greate app, was working on something like this before i saw the site and relised that i should not reinvent the wheel and just give my input and see if it will help.

Ok so i used and alias with my call for series info to the TVdb API that makes it easier for the automation to work once the user has selected a series that he want, this should also solve the problem with series that contain special characters in the Name like : .

Anyway hope it helps

Regards

New Post: Proxy & ISA Support

Linoge — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:06:25 GMT

If you can give Proxy Support to the App would be cool, add the folling in the App.Config File, Worked For Me

<system.net>

</defaultProxy>

</system.net>

then it will use the settings typed into your Internet Explorer.

Cheers